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What movies has OHearn actually been in?

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TERRY TODD ...
Terence (Terry) Todd,  Ph. D... writer, acadmic, journalist, champion weight lifter, sport promoter, founder of the H. J. Lutcher Stark Center of Physical Culture at the University of Texas in  Austin, and Director of the Arnold Strongman Classic, died in 2018, at age 80.
In 1963, at a body weight of 300 pounds, Todd won the AAU Junior National Weightlifting Championships; then, in 1965, he captured the Senior National Powerlifting Championships. He became the first to total 1,600; 1,700; 1,800 and 1,900 pounds in powerlifting competition.
In 1967, Todd began his extensive collegiate teaching career at Auburn University. Next, he taught at Mercer University, and then Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scopia, prior to taking a position at the University of Texas.
As a doctoral student at the University of Texas Todds' weightlifting coach, Professor Roy J. McLean, encouraged him to continue accumulating physical culture memorabilia, which he had begun doing in the late 1950's.
In 1975, Terry and is wife Jan, purchased the collection of the late Ottley Coulter, the highly regarded circus srongman, who had compiled the largest assortment of physical culture collectables in the United States.
Once the Todds' had examined the 385-box assortment of books, magazines, photographs, posters, scrapbooks, clippings, ect., Todd said, "We realized it was our responsibility to care for these treasures and to find a permanent home for the collection."
In 1983, along with Professor McLean, the Todds' donated their 100,000-item stockpile of fitness material to the H. J. Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports at the University. The historical accumulation has expanded to over 300,000 components.
Retiring from competitive powerlifting in 1967, Terry served as the head official and color commentator for the earliest World Strongest Man events. Starting in 1977, he did color commentary for several World Powerlifting Championships. In 1977, he created the Strongest Man in Football series of TV contests.
That same year, 1978, Todd began writing articles for Sports Illustrated, profiling powerlifters Lamar Gant, Larry Pacifico, Bill Kazmaier, his wife Dr. Jan Todd, and bodybuilder Bill Pearl.
He then expanded the articles to cover the professional careers of football player, Bob Young; arm wrestler, Al Turner; All-American football players, Dave Rimington and Herschel Walker; along with professional wrestler, Andre the Giant.
Dr. Todd went on to author six books and write hundreds of articles for popular and academic publications. His book, Inside Powerlifting, published in 1977, was the first written on powerlifting.
Since 1990, Terry and Jan co-authored Iron Game History, a quarterly published journal dealing with the history of physical culture. Asked regarding the most memorable male powerlifters he coached Terry replied, "Lamar Gant, Bill Kazmaier and Mark Henry, top my list."
For more thn 40 years, Dr. Todd lectured on strength training, sports history, and drugs in sports. He was frequently interviewed by newspapers, magaines, and on television. He appeared on 60 Minutes, the McNeil/Lehrer Report, CBE Evening News, ABC's Nightime, National Public Radio's Morning Edition, and covered the commentary on two Olympic Games for CBS - TV.
In 2001, Todd, assisted by David Webster, O.B.E. and Bill Kazmaier, created and directed the Arnold's Strongman Classic held each year at the Arnold's Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio. This outstanding strength event currently attracts the best strongmen, and offers the largest prize money for any similar acivity.
A Hall of Fame member of the USA Powerlifting Assocation; the American Drug Free Powerlifting Association; and the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association, Terry was honored by the Association of Oldetime Barbell & Strongmen, and by the Oscar Heidenstam Foundation, which presented him the Malcolm Whyatt Lifetime Achievement Award.
At the close of a recent interview, Dr. Terry Todd was asked for words of  wisdom and replied, "I remember what I was told by England's late-great phyiscal culturist Joe Assirati, 'Always walk at your tallest and broadest.'"

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BOB KENNEDY ... FOUNDER OF MUSCLEMAG INTERNATIONAL
Bob Kennedy was born in Norfolk, England in 1938. As a typical scrawny youngster, he took up weight training after seeing a brochure advertising the Charles Atlas home-training course. Finding this regimen too costly for his empty pocketbook, he began training on a barbell made from a broomstick and cement-filled biscuit tins.
Brought up in Southern England during World War II, and the years following, Bob was faced with an environment where food was in short supply and circumstances not the best for a young man attempting to develop a muscular fit body. Still, he developed a lean muscular physique, most admired by the general public. He also became a skilled writer who penned numerous articles for Health & Strength magazine and other fitness publications.
A lover of hand-balancing, Kennedy remembered: "It seemed like I spent half of my youth upside-down, however, my true love was arm-wrestling. I entered several meets and was never beaten. As a bodybuilder, I entered a  few contests, falling short because I lacked muscle size,  except at the 1967 Mr. Cannes Film Festival, the French preferred the lighter muscular physiques."
Immigrating to Canada in 1967,  Kennedy, a former art and sculpture student who taught at college level in England, resumed teaching in Ontario. Later, he began liquidating his self-produced highly-desired oil paintings in his effort to earn money to publish a fitness magazine.
In 1974, with a savings of $15,000, Kennedy printed the first issue of MuscleMag International. He spent the next 15 years ducking landlords and collection agents while waiting for his publication to turn its first profit.
Bob eventually transformed his hobby of strength training into a multi-million dollar empire based in Mississauga, Ontario. His artwork also increased in value, bringing up to $30,000 per canvas.
Kennedy took his financial success in stride. He recalled, "Truth is the magazine was slow taking off. However, with the first issue, which I designed and laid out on my kitchen table, MuscleMag had its loyal readers. They supported it, so I kept publishing.                                                                                                                             By 1988, the financial situation became so severe, I put together an appeal to our readers. I told them the truth, I'd run out of money and couldn't stick to printing unless they took out a two-year subscription or purchased some of our books or videos. The response was overwhelming. Loyalty has never been so beautifully demonstrated. I was knee-deep in orders for subscriptions, videos, training belts, back issues and books. The response saved the magazine. Currently, MuscleMag has a readership of nearly 500,000  loyal fans per issue."
Among Bob's financial decisions was to bring his old training partner and best friend, Dennis "Gino" Edwards to Canada to help with his business projects. Dennis became known as Johnny Fitness, one of the  elite and most talented writers of the fitness industry.
Kennedy was the first publisher to apply the term "hardcore" to bodybuilding and "hardcore"definitely defined MuscleMag and the 50 books Bob had written. He readily admitted that his book sales had brought in the revenue to keep some of his various businesses  solvent. His wife, Tosa Reno, also authored several books on women's health and fitness and was a staff writer for Bob's highly regarded women's magazine Oxygen.
By the early 2000's, Kennedy's financial empire consisted of five periodicals, a chain of exercise stores, a clothing line and a book publishing department. Refusing to rest on his laurels, he continued to write at least one article a month for each of his publications and oversaw the editorial and graphic designs. Why? "Because I am one who found a job I love," said Bob.
In 2019, Bob Kennedy died from complications caused by cancer at the age of 73.

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  LARRY SCOTT  ...  THE BOY NEXT DOOR
Larry Dee Scott (October 12, 1938 – March 8, 2014), nicknamed "The Legend" and "The Golden Boy," was an American IFBB professional bodybuilder. He won the inaugural 1965 Mr. Olympia competition and defended the crown at the 1966 Mr. Olympia contest before retiring.
Scott was born in Pocatello, Idaho to Thea Scott and machinist Wayne Scott. He began training at age 16 and won the Mr. Idaho competition in 1959 at age 20. After moving to California, he promptly won Mr. California (1960), Mr. Pacific Coast (1961), Mr. America (1962), and Mr. Universe (1964). When Joe Weider created the IFBB's Mr. Olympia title, Scott won the first two contests in 1965 and 1966. Although retiring after his 1966 Olympia win, he staged a brief comeback in 1979 before he finally retired from competition in 1980. He studied electronics at the California Air College, and was known to be a devout Mormon. He married Rachel Scott (née Ichikawa). The Scotts had five children: daughter Susan, and sons Erin, Nathan, Derek, and Michael. Derek died in a motorcycle accident in 1992, and Michael died in 1993.
Scott played a minor role in the 1964 movie Muscle Beach Party. When he started weight training in 1956, his narrow shoulders were a particular weak spot. He trained with Vince Gironda, a well-known bodybuilder of the time, and became best known for his arm development, particularly his impressive and unusually long biceps. He attributed his biceps to an exercise called the "Preacher Curl", invented by Gironda, later known as the "Scott Curl" due to its association with Scott.
Scott stated in a 1965 Iron Man interview that his diet consisted of "a lot of meat, cheese and eggs", coupled with protein supplements. He was a popular physique model during the early to mid-1960s, working for photographers Bruce of Los Angeles, Don Whitman (of the Western Photography Guild), and Pat Milo. Milo introduced Scott to a larger audience and helped him hone his posing and photographic persona: the "boy next door".
Larry regularly appeared in all of Joe Weider's bodybuilding magazines, including Mr. America and Muscle Builder, also appearing in Demi Gods, Muscleboy, Muscles a Go-Go and The Young Physique. As an IFBB member, he wrote exclusively for Joe Weider's publications.
From 1960 until his first retirement in 1966, Scott was bodybuilding's top superstar. Bodybuilding magazines soon began capitalizing on his clean-cut, all-American image. His popularity become known as "Larry Fever" and reached its apex at the first Mr. Olympia competition in 1965, winning the "jewel"- encrusted crown against Harold Poole. Scott defended his title and won the 1966 Mr. Olympia title, receiving a $1,000 prize.   
News of Scott's retirement at the age of 28 shocked the sport, but he prioritized his second marriage and felt he had done all he could in competitive bodybuilding after two Olympia wins.
Rod Labbe, a freelance writer and fan, collaborated with Scott on five articles: a two-part interview in Flex magazine, two articles in Ironman, the "Poetry in Motion" article in MuscleMag International, a promotional article/interview for Scarlet: the Film Magazine about American International's Muscle Beach Party (1964), with Don Rickles. Five years after his passing, Labbe wrote a Scott tribute article for the March 2019 issue of Muscle & Fitness entitled, "My friend, Larry Scott."
Scott retired to Salt Lake City, operating his personal training company Larry Scott Fitness & Nutrition. The company manufactured and sold custom gym equipment and health supplements. He was inducted into the IFBB Hall of Fame in 1999. His last public interview about his life was in 2012 on K-TALK Radio.
On March 8, 2014, Scott died of complications from Alzheimer's disease at his home in Salt Lake City, at the age of 75.

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  CHRIS DICKERSON...1982 MR. OLYMPIA
Chris Dickerson, the winner of the 1982 IFBB Mr. Olympia award, was born August 25, 1939, in Montgomery, Alabama. Following graduation from a New York City college, he moved to Los Angeles in 1963, to train under the direction of Bill Pearl.
In 1970, Dickerson became the first African-American to win the AAU Mr. America crown and captured other major physique titles, including the 1973 NABBA Amateur Mr. Universe and the 1974 NABBA Professional Mr. Universe. In 1982, he won the IFBB Mr. Olympia contest, following two consecutive years as runner-up. Standing 5' 6" tall, and weighing 190 pounds, Chris became the oldest, at age 43, to win the crown and the $25,000 first-place prize money.
On the heels of his 1982 "Olympia" victory, Chris began shuffling between Los Angeles and Manhattan to oversee his personal-training clientele. His last physique competition came at the 1994 IFBB Masters Mr. Olympia where, he won the Over 50 category.
Chris passed away from heart failure, the evening of December 23rd 2021.

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  CHRIS DICKERSON...1982 MR. OLYMPIA
Chris Dickerson, the winner of the 1982 IFBB Mr. Olympia award, was born August 25, 1939, in Montgomery, Alabama. Following graduation from a New York City college, he moved to Los Angeles in 1963, to train under the direction of Bill Pearl.
In 1970, Dickerson became the first African-American to win the AAU Mr. America crown and captured other major physique titles, including the 1973 NABBA Amateur Mr. Universe and the 1974 NABBA Professional Mr. Universe. In 1982, he won the IFBB Mr. Olympia contest, following two consecutive years as runner-up. Standing 5' 6" tall, and weighing 190 pounds, Chris became the oldest, at age 43, to win the crown and the $25,000 first-place prize money.
On the heels of his 1982 "Olympia" victory, Chris began shuffling between Los Angeles and Manhattan to oversee his personal-training clientele. His last physique competition came at the 1994 IFBB Masters Mr. Olympia where, he won the Over 50 category.
Chris passed away from heart failure, the evening of December 23rd 2021.

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JOHN CITRONE  ...  OVER 50 YEARS OF COMPETITIVE BODYBUILDING
John Citrone, born in 1943, in Durham, England, is one of the greatest enduring physique athletes of all time. His first bodybuilding contest occurred in 1958, and his last in 2005, a span of 47 years.
Although John took layoffs from competition between 1969 and 1991, no person in the sport has competed in top-level competition over such a long period of time.
Citrone began strength training at age 13, in his home-gym over his father's ice-cream shop. Four years later, he won the 1960 Junior Mr. North Britain and was runner-up at the Junior Mr. Britain. In 1961, he won the contest.
The following year, 1962,  John broke the British junior record in the bench press with 401 pounds at the body weight of 168 pounds. Later, he unofficially bench pressed 490 pounds and squatted at the body weight of 175 pounds.
By the mid 1960s, Citrone was the  most talk about English bodybuilder since Reg Park.  His titles included "Mr. Britain" and "Britain's Most Muscular Man." In 1967, he again won his height class in the NABBA "Amateur Mr. Universe" contest and, on stage as a guest performer at the 1968 "Mr. Britain" contest, he bench pressed 488 pounds and squatted 506 pounds at a body-weight of less  than 180 pounds. That year, and in 1969, John won his height class in the NABBA "Professional Mr. Universe" contest, but was forced into semi-retirement from competition in 1970, due to financial commitments.       
Citrone's interest in competitive weight training was renewed by the birth of the "Masters" contests. From 1991 to 2005, his dozen or more victories ranged from "Masters Mr. Britain" to "Masters Worlds Champion," with only two defeats. one being at the NABBA "Masters Mr. Universe" in 1991 and the other in 1996. Malcolm Whyatt, publisher of Health & Strength magazine recorded:
     Citrone's inspiration was Bill Pearl. His admiration was such that when he, Bill, Reg Park, Steve Reeves, and 14 other physique stars were presented on stage at the 1998 NABBA "Mr. Universe" contest, the normally very quiet John, took the microphone and paid tribute to Pearl.
In 2000, Citrone included a professional strongman act with his bodybuilding exhibitions. His feats included pressing overhead a 110-pound anvil in one hand and a 90-pound ship anchor in the other. Unfortunately, as he attempted to lift a 240-pound man from the floor in a "teeth-lift" (through the use of a leather pad connected to a light chain), John, with one horrific pull, lost several teeth!
Over the years, John Citrone has received numerous honorary awards and citations. He was inducted into the Oscar Heidenstam Hall of Fame in 2000.     

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  HAROLD POOLE
Harold Damien Poole, born December 25, 1943, in Louisville, Kentucky.
Harold Poole was 13 years old when his family moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he attended Shortridge High School and blossomed into an outstanding all-around athlete. His track coach, Roy Aberson, anadvocate of strength-training introduced him to weights. As a result, following three years of training at Fred Hofmeister's Gym, in Indianapolis, Haroldgained 40 pounds of muscle.
In 1960, at age 16, Poole became the youngest AAU "Mr. America" contestant, finishing in 18th place. By age 18, at a height of five-feet, ten inches and weighing 200 pounds, Harold was the starting quarterback for his high school football team. He finished fourth in the state wrestling championships, ran 440 yards in 50 seconds, and putt the 12 pound shot 55 feet.
In 1962, Loren Comstock wrote in Strength & Health magazine:
Every few years, there appears on the bodybuilding scene a personality with exceptional development. These individuals posses not only large muscular size, but have amazing definition and shape. At the time of this writing I believe a new physique star of the aforementioned proportions stands on the brink of physical greatness. The individual of whom I speak so highly is Harold Poole, an 18-year old high-scool senior from Indianapolis, Indiana. Harold was winning physique contests at age of 16, when most neophyte bodybuilders are startin to take an interest in the covers of physical culture magazines.
From the ages of 17 to 19, Harold won 11 amateur physique events, including the 1961 AAU "Junior Mr. America" and "Most Muscular" titles. He was runner-up at the 1962 and 1963 AAU "Mr. America" competitions.
There is little doubt racial prejudice prevented Poole from winning the overall AAU "Mr. America" crown. The excuse AAU judges often gave was that Harold, who suffered from a speech problem and had taken a year off from school to attend the Bogue Institute for Stammerers, would not be an "appropriate representitive" for the AAU "Mr. America" title. It is easy to imagine how hurtful this argument would be to a young man who not only dreamed of becoming "Mr. America," but had the genetiv make-up and work ethic to cause it to happen.
At age 19, realizing he would probably not overcome the AAU prejudice, Harold changed affiliations to the IFBB and won the IFBB "Mr Universe" contest. The following year, he became the first African-American officially named "Mr. America." He then became the youngest to compete at the IFBB "Mr. Olympia" contest. He placed second in 1965,1966, and 1967, and won the WBBG "Professional Mr. America" titles in 1067 and 1968.
Known for popularizing the "Most Muscular" pose, Poole lists his strength records as a 550 pound squat, a 300 pound standing press and a bench press of 380 pounds. When asked regardin steroid use, he adamantly replied, In my youth I never took steroids. I never have! I never will!
As Poole's competitive bodybuilding career neared an end,, he spent time as a bodyguard for Twiggy Lawson, the English Model/Actress. He tried his hand at professional wrestling under the alias of "Prince Poole of Tahiti," and then moved ti the in-vogue, world-famous midtown Manhatten disco nightclub, the Cheetah", where he worked up to a managerial position.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Harold returned to competitive bodybuilding as Damien Poole. He retired from competition following the 1982 IFBB "Night of Champions" after finishing out of the top ten.
In late 2009, Poole lived in Titusville, Florida, where , along with regular weight -training, he com
ntinued to practice martial arts, with his primary focus on Tae Kwon Do. At age 64, weighing 273 pounds, he was considering a return to the stage for the 2008 IFBB "Masters Olympia" competition, but was prevented from making a comeback due to a serious liver ailment that put him in intensive care for six weeks.
Harold Damien Poole was inducted into the Joe Weider Hall of Fame in 2004 and the WBBG Hall of Fame in 2007.
Harold died, August 7th 2014, aged 70.

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  William Arnold Pearl was born in Prineville on October 31, 1930. While he was still a young boy, the family moved to Yakima, Washington, where his father opened a restaurant. Bill and his brother and sister worked in the resteraunt, Bill washing dishes,three or four nights a week and weekends, for no pay. To earn money he worked summers in Hop fields or orchards.
He began his weight training career by lifting gallon cans of vegetables overhead and by lying on the floor of their family diner hauling a gunny sack full of potatoes onto his chest and pressing it in a crude fashion as many times as possible.
When Bill was 14, his friend, Al Simmons, knowing of his desire to develop into a strongman, came to the Pearl home holding a war-time issue of Strength & Health magazine. Bill spent the intire summer saving money to purchase a York Big 10 Adjustable Barbell set.
Enlisting in the United States Navy in 1950, Pearl won the 13th Naval District "Heavyweight Wrestling Championship" and the "Pacific Northwest All-Comers"
 meet in 1951. He was 11th Naval District heavyweight champion the following year, but was defeated in the first qualifying round for a place on the United States Olympic wrestling team.
While serving in the United States Navy, Pearl was stationed in San Diego, where he began training at Leo Stern's gym. Encouraged by Stern, at age 22, he won the first of several major bodybuilding contests including the 1953 AAU Mr. California and Mr. America events.                                                                             The same year, he captured the NABBA Amateur Mr. Universe title in London. In 1956, he won the Professional Mr. USA contest.
Subsequently, Bill's international tours earned him NABBA Professional Mr. Universe titles in 1961, 1967, and 1971. His competitive bodybuilding career spanned a nineteen-year period.
Complementing his interest in weight training and bodybuilding, Pearl became a leader in the fitness industry. He owned and managed several gyms on the West Coast from the 1950s through the 1970s.
In 1962, Pearl purchased George Redpath's gym in central Los Angeles, that became one of the first co-ed facilities in the United States. The gym attracted national and Olympic track athletes, professional baseball players, and world-class power-lifters and bodybuilders.
During his career, Pearl trained and coached nine Mr. America winners and fourteen Mr. Universe champions. In the 1960s, he contracted with North American Rockwell's Aerospace Program to guide training protocols for Rockwell executives and astronauts. This job lasted for nearly ten years.
With Bill's fame as a world-class bodybuilder, came opportunities to speak about fitness, weight training, and bodybuilding. During the 1960s, Pearl traveled to more countries than any other Mr. America before him.
Spreading advice about fitness, weight training, and bodybuilding became a lifetime commitment for Pearl, and he wrote three best-selling books, including Keys to the Inner Universe (1978), Getting Stronger (1986), and Beyond the Universe: The Bill Pearl Story (2003).
At this time he traveled extensively for Life Fitness as, among other things, a good-will ambassador. One of the presentations he did for them was a slide presentation on The Golden Age of Strength. This was the inspiration for his (Labor of Love) "Legends of the Iron Game"  which he compiled over a period of eight years.
At this time he traveled extensively for Life Fitness as, among other things, a good-will ambassador. One of the presentations he did for them was a slide presentation on The Golden Age of Strength. This was the inspiration for his (Labor of Love) "Legends of the Iron Game"  which he compiled over a period of eight years.
In 2004, Pearl was awarded the Arnold Swarzenegger Classic Lifetime Achievement Award for significantly impacting the world of bodybuilding. (A list of other awards can be found on Wikipedia.)
Pearl retired from bodybuilding and settled in Talent, Oregon, in 1978, where he operated Bill Pearl Enterprises. His workout facility was housed in a barn on his property, and people came from all over the world to work out with him.

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  LARRY PACIFICO ... "MR. POWERLIFTING"
Larry Pacifico, born in 1946, in Amsterdam, New York, is widely regarded as one of the greatest powerlifers of all time. Nicknamed  Mr. Powerlifting, he won nine straight IPF World Powerlifting Championships from 1971-1979. During his powerlifting career, he won a total of 102 competitions and set 54 world records.
As a youngster, Pacifico was a scrawny kid who suffered from rheumatic fever, but then began lifting weights in junior high school hoping to improve his performance in sports.
Fortunately, Pacifico's health improved and his strength increased. He became captain of his high school's gymnastic team and state champion on the rings. He put a 12-pound shot 57-feet, five-inchs; threw the discus 163-feet; long-jumped 22-feet, five-inches; high jumped five-feet, ten-inches; and ran the 100 yard dash in ten seconds.
In 1956, Larry's bodybuilding talents began to surface. He moved to Dayton, Ohio, and entered local physique contests and won the 1957 AAU Mr. Miami Valley crown.
Pacifico than began to focus on powerlifting and for the following 18 years was a constant threat in the 198, 220, and 240-pound weight divisions. His best official lifts include an 832-pound squat; 611-pound bench press; 771-pound deadlift, for a 2,061-pound total.
Bill Kazmaier, three time World's Strongest Man winner and two time IPF World Champion, once stated, "The first time I went to a powerlifting meet and saw Larry, I think he was probably six or seven on his World Championships and he was pretty- much how would you say?... a god in powerlifting. He could go to any class that he wanted to. He could pretty much lift whatever weight on the day he wanted to."
Four time IPF powerlifting champion and 1979 World's Strongest Man winner Don Reinhoudt said of Larry, "I look at Pacifico, an idol to all of us ... nine time champion. Larry will alway be the Legend of All Time to us."
Some may suggest Larry paid a high price for his athletic success. He acknowledged anabolic steroids may have contributed to some of his serious health problems. In the early 2000's, he commented, "At one point my cholesterol level was over 600. I've survived three heart attacks, a seven-way coronary bypass, 15 orthopedic surgeries, chronic joint pain, and advanced arthritis. However, today my health seems good. I weigh 185 pounds at 12 percent body fat."
Larry stated he would live his life the same, if given another opportunity. "I'd do it again because that's what I needed to win," he  said. "Everybody was taking steroids. I know it sounds nutty, but in those days that's what you did to keep up with competition."
In 2000, Larry was inducted into the York Barbell Hall of Fame and named National Trainer of the Year, by the Interntional Sports Science Associition (ISSA) in 2004.
In 2006, he merged his two state-of-the-art fitness centers in the Dayton area, with NeoLimits, Incorpotated.

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   Did Bill Pearl Win the 1971 Mr. Universe Contest with Kindness?
   Throughout bodybuilding history, contests have been won for various reasons other than someone being the most well-developed, aesthetically pleasing.  Bodybuilding is a subjective sport, and the definition of perfection differs from person to person.  Contests have been won due to physical attractiveness, charisma, etc.  In its early years, the Mr. America contest winner needed to be a good-looking and well-spoken individual who would be a great representative of America.  It is easy to see how someone as attractive as Steve Reeves, charismatic as Arnold Schwarzenegger, or as charming as John Grimek might have an edge in a subjective sport such as bodybuilding.  But has a bodybuilding contest ever been won because of kindness?


   Bill Pearl is and will be bodybuilding’s greatest gentleman.  In a sport where competitors are often stereotyped as brutes with IQs not breaking triple digits, Pearl broke the mold.  He has been a great representative of bodybuilding for eight decades now and usually praised his opponents instead of bashing them.  In the rare case Pearl said something derogatory about someone it was always worth noting.  Steve Reeves brought bodybuilding aesthetics, Arnold Schwarzenegger brought it into the mainstream, and Bill Pearl brought it decorum.  To say Bill Pearl is a nice guy is an understatement.


   Bill Pearl is also one of the most successful bodybuilders to ever compete in major contests winning 10 of the 12 contests he entered.  His worst showing was taking 3rd place in the first contest he entered at age 21 (Mr. San Diego) and he took 2nd place in the 1956 NABBA Pro Mr. Universe losing to the great Jack Delinger.  The only bodybuilder with a better record was the immortal and undefeated John Grimek.


   


Bill Pearl, Reg Park & Sergio Oliva - A Battle of the Giants
   The contest in question was the 1971 NABBA Pro Mr. Universe held

September 17th in London, England.  Pearl was reluctantly competing and had every right to be angry.  He had been comfortably retired for the past four years and was now back on stage at almost 41 years of age feeling like he had been pulled out of retirement for the wrong reasons, and only to please others.



   He had been called out by Joe Weider and Arnold Schwarzenegger in several of Weider’s muscle magazines.  Apparently, Weider was upset that many of his readers frequently wrote letters to the magazine about Pearl, praising him as the greatest bodybuilder ever.  Nautilus founder, Arthur Jones, and Sergio Oliva also challenged Pearl to come out of retirement for the contest.  Jones and Pearl had gotten into a spat about the effectiveness of Nautilus equipment vs. free weights and Jones had been training Oliva exclusively on his equipment to try and promote his products as the builder of champions.  Jones had offered Oliva $5,000 if he could beat Pearl in the contest.  Pearl didn’t have any help from his longtime trainer, Leo Stern, who also challenged him to come out of retirement and shut up the critics.


   Facing Pearl that day were some of the greatest bodybuilders to ever walk the stage: Sergio Oliva, Reg Park, and Frank Zane.  It was arguably one of the greatest bodybuilding contests ever assembled and certainly would have been the greatest if Weider would have let Arnold compete in it.  However, Weider had recently enacted a rule that any athlete would be suspended from the IFBB for a year if they competed in an event outside of the IFBB which would have made Arnold ineligible to compete in the Mr. Olympia contest the following weekend. 


   Before the competition began an event occurred backstage that might have played a role in Pearl winning the contest.  The competitors were backstage pumping up preparing to go out and pose when according to his autobiography, Beyond the Universe: The Bill Pearl Story:


A young Belgian boy, about eleven years old, had been brought backstage, to see and possibly meet some of the contestants. The father nudged the boy, his autograph book in hand, toward Sergio.  BIG MISTAKE!  The moment the boy got into his space, Sergio shouted something like, "Get the hell out of here! I don't have time for autographs!  See me after the show!"  The outburst shocked the father and son to the point where you could actually see dismay on their faces.



Bill Pearl and the Belgium boy, identified as Chris Vandenbroele in Pearl's autobiography
Regaining his composure, the father began pushing the boy toward me.  The boy walked over, his head down, autograph book at arm's length, afraid to make eye contact. Having seen the crestfallen look on the child's face, I signed my name and then picked him up and placed him on my shoulder as he flexed his skinny arm while his father snapped a photograph.


The next time I saw his father, he was looking at me while sitting at the judge's table with a smile on his face, nodding his head up and down, mouthing the word, "Yes--yes--yes."


   While this is certainly an interesting story, and no doubt true if told by Bill Pearl, it begs the question; Did a judge potentially switching his vote from Oliva to Pearl make any difference?  According to an article written for Muscular Development magazine shortly after the contest by its General Secretary, Oscar Heidenstam:


It was Pearl with 10 firsts, Oliva with four firsts.  So Bill took his fourth Mr. Universe title, and we doubt if there will ever be another Mr. Universe contest like that again.


   Based on Heidenstam’s article it appears there were a total of fourteen judges and 10 cast their first-place ballots for Pearl and 4 cast theirs for Oliva.  Based on this information, if the Belgium judge in question had voted for Oliva instead of Pearl the final first place vote tally would still have given Pearl first place easily at 9 first place votes to 5.


   While this story is certainly interesting, it appears Pearl would have won the contest easily even without the potential switched vote from the Belgium judge.  It is worth noting however, this story proves that factors outside of the objective judging of one’s physical perfection seem to play a role in bodybuilding.  It is human nature for our perception of others, including their attractiveness, to evolve as we learn more about their character. It would follow then that a great champion in a lineup of perfect bodies would have to exude some extra intangible quality like confidence, charisma, or maybe even kindness.